When I was four my dad started buying a lot of musical instruments.

Apparently he wanted to start a band but he couldn’t find the right members, so he told my mom about his frustrations, and they figured they’d give teaching their kids how to play instruments a shot. I started learning how to play the guitar, my younger sisters learned the bass, the drums and the keyboard.

My dad bought a pa system and set it up at home. He made my younger sister sing and set up the effects so you can hear her voice even when the entire band plays. He got us a voice instructor so we can vocalize and reach higher octaves. The sound system we had at home was amazing, even our neighbors started flocking to our backyard just so they could hear us play.

I guess music will always be a part of my life because of this upbringing.

Last night’s thanksgiving was amazing. Everyone in the family came including my cousins from abroad. It has been a tradition in our family to exchange gifts on this event. However to add some fun, we decided to give give the gift giving a twist. What we did was give something that you would never expect to receive in your life. Everyone loved the idea.

Midnight came and it was time to open the gifts. Everyone was so excited because gifts are the least expected things they could possibly get. One of my cousins got a wallet. But not just any wallet. It was an authentic leather wallet made from a kangaroo’s scrotum. Cool huh?

Me? Well I got a humidor. At first I thought it was a jewelry box. But then the manual said that it was a very expensive high quality box used to store cigars. I was just… well… stunned.

But the coolest gift was received by my cousin. Everyone laughed when she opened the gift. To describe, it was a tube which has a button. When the button is pressed, it vibrated. Hahaha. It was a reflexology stick. But hey everyone thought it was a, nevermind.

It’s the season to be jolly, and we all know that families are hungry for the holiday treats that gift baskets can provide. My mom tends to procrastinate a lot so I took the initiative and looked up shops that provide quick delivery services. I’m not entirely sure which one I could get yet since I’m not really good with this Christmas shopping thing and I’m not the one who buys the baskets for friends of our families.

Do you guys have any ideas on which sites I should actually bother looking at? I’m running out of ideas.

Christmas is fun! I can’t wait to wrap presents for friends and anticipate the look in their faces when they open the gifts!

There’s only one problem with that though… WHAT PRESENTS DO I GET MY FRIENDS, AND DO I HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY THEM GIFTS!?

Oh nooooo!

It’s the christmas season! (Well, it is, technically, for my country, since it starts when the months end in “ber”, and the nights begin to get cold, etc etc.)

You know what I’m excited about? I’m excited about the christmas decorations, listening to christmas songs, and being able to wear jackets outside the house because it’s cold! I also cannot wait for all of the gift baskets we will be getting from our neighbors, because most of them will contain chocolates and awesome food! Teehee.

I’m preparing gifts for my friends, since I’m currently broke, I decided on giving each of them a doodle version of themselves. I’ll doodle on shirts and draw using that special cloth marker that takes a lot of time before it fades so they can wear the shirts with pride!

I dunno about you, but I really am a big fan of personalized gifts. I choose those over expensive things.

My sister has been packing up for New York since her application for a green card has now been accepted and her husband already bought tickets. I actually am a little surprised that she decided to pack earlier than the usual since she tends to procrastinate a lot. I guess that’s what going to New York gives you– a sense of change and excitement to do things. I am a little sad that they’ll be leaving us, but happy for them since they get to take the next step and open way more opportunities when they get to the big apple.

I thought of giving them a bunch of box cutters as a going away present since they brought so much stuff with them and I like giving things that would be useful for them. These things would make unpacking ten times easier, I swear, and they’re so cute and nifty to hold!

Do you have any other gift ideas for my sister and her husband? I’d really appreciate it since I’m really out of ideas at this rate and they’re leaving in two days!

You know how my sister has done all sorts of things to her body to make her more beautiful? She has about five piercings on places that I’m not even sure I’m ready to see, two tattoos, and she’s thinking about getting eyelash growth procedures. I’m not even sure how the last one works, but I’ve always found women with long, beautiful eyelashes intimidating.

There’s just something about long eyelashes that makes me want to stare into people’s eyes and wonder about things, mostly trivial things, like what is this person like? Or, is this person interesting enough to make me want to actually get to know them long enough to become friends?

I know, I’m weird sometimes. What features or things in a person gets you drawn to them, or intimidated, or intrigued? Share it with us! I’m sure I’m not the only one with issues like this! Hahaha!

I was watching “How I met your Mother” yesterday and I came across this scene when “Barney” showed a presentation on his laptop. So what is so cool about this scene? Well, before he did the presentation, he shouted “Marshall, lights!”. Then when the lights are off, he opened his laptop and the presentation was projected to the wall? Now do you get it? Yep! Barney’s laptop has a built in projector!

You’ve heard of notebooks with built-in modem, built-in camera, built-in fingerprint scanner, but I bet you’ve never heard of a built-in projector. At first I thought that this was just some fake scene. But hey when I googled “home dlp projector” built in laptops, a lot of search results came out.

As it turns out, this is the newest trend in laptops especially for the business line notebooks. No need for a projector anymore ‘coz your laptop has it built in. Imagine how cool that is right?